@drsalvucci Just started using battle maps for #Genefunk, a biopunk DnD5E game. Picked up the "Giant Book of Cyberpunk Battle Maps" by Loke Battle Maps, and I've printed a few digital ones on an A3 inkjet printer. For mini's I use 1" wide tokens created in Powerpoint of all things. Never been a fan of battle maps until I started running a game where range, positioning and tactical movement were "hard coded" into the rules.
So for tomorrow's #Genefunk game I've gone sod it, the megacorp is using genetically engineered, cybernetically enhanced dinosaurs as perimeter security. Roll on the Cyber Raptors.
#Genefunk, like several recentish cyberpunk-style games, posits a stable cryptocurrency as the basis of the economy. While from a flavour perspective, this is fine and dandy, it feels odd not to have any volatility associated with crypto.
My #Genefunk game is set in the city of Pacific Point, which is essentially Night City from Cyberpunk using a fan map someone uploaded to RPG.net.
However, after getting a gaming PC a couple of months ago, I've been building a cyberpunk-inspired city in Cities Skylines. Using a mod in the workshop, you can create a workable map of the city in .png format. Had I had this setup a few months earlier, I may have custom-built the city in the game and used the exported map alongside screenshots.
Looking for ideas for gigs/jobs/contracts for my #Genefunk game, my Googling came across https://perchance.org/cpredfixer which is a random gig generator for #CyberpunkRED. It gave me the idea for the PCs to be hired by a group looking to intercept and hijack the scheduled transfer of an uploaded psychomime (essentially "kidnap" an uploaded consiousness). The PCs are hired to disrupt operations at a satellite communications relay to force the system to divert comms to a less-secure backup facility.
When it came to our next game, #cyberpunk was the genre that attracted us the most. It was a toss-up between two different games. #CyberpunkRED and #Genefunk. Both had their strengths and weaknesses, and I was prepared to run either. The other players settled on Genefunk, a #biopunk setting for #dnd5e. Mainly because the transgenic genomes give PCs a wide variety of options. And the "hacking" system, which repurposes the DnD magic system. On the whole, it has been a good choice.
Last five #ttrpg I've run or played:
#Genefunk (#DnD5E biopunk)
#2300AD (#MgT2E version)
#FateCore
#DungeonWorld
#CypherSystem
Next ones that I want to run or play:
#StarTrekAdventures
#Vulcania
#Coriolis
#Alien
